...Joseph J. Letter Letter investigates the impact of the present in early historical fictions and how that present is manifested in the elaborate allegorical structures of the first popular novels to emerge after the War of 1812. Specifically, the figure of the suffering Revolutionary soldier...

... war ended. This gap results in part from familiar ethnocentrism in publishing and in part from a deleterious formulation of masculine authenticity in Chicano nationalist texts, which favored representations of aggressive Chicano protestors over those of ambivalent Chicano soldiers. In contrast to the...

...Brian J. Williams This essay argues that forces of globalization have changed how American combatants define their identities within and against a foreign environment. Building on notions that soldiers construct identity by rendering foreign landscapes as Other, this piece considers how familiarity...

... soldiers’ responses to war violence as beset by paradox—as normal as childbirth yet “beyond bearing.” I use this strange juxtaposition of documents (postmodern dispatch and official reports and memoranda) to reflect on the archive as an accidental anthology that allows us the opportunity to read disparate...

...Christopher Taylor Taylor reads Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) through the history of the captured prosthetic limb of Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. U.S. travel narratives, soldiers' accounts, and P. T. Barnum's 1847 display of the captured prosthesis in his American Museum...

... commerce’’ (15), bringing a newly coalesc-
ing nationalism home to readers in unexpected ways. ‘‘In sentimental soldier
literature Fahs writes, ‘‘it was not an abstract notion of country that made
the individual...

... inferior,
undesirable, or deviant on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, or other
markers of diﬀerence.2 Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play (1981) drama-
tizes these politics of exclusion, revealing how geography shapes deﬁ-
nitions of blackness.
First presented by Douglas Turner Ward’s Negro...

...
inﬂuence but many slave-owning Cubans, conversely, aligned them-
selves with the Confederacy in their eﬀorts to uphold slavery in the
face of British opposition. As the subtitle of her 1876 Civil War narra-
tive stipulates, Velazquez identiﬁes herself as both a ‘‘Cuban woman
and a Confederate soldier...

... group of soldier-subscribers”—sending Recorder subscriptions was one way in which African Americans at home supported the troops (126). It also disregards “the notable subset of single women, . . . subscribers from the Midwest (or the South), or AME ministers.” The real takeaway, Gardner emphasizes...

... developed two innovations, argues Cushman. One was a bottom-up perspective, telling the stories of individual soldiers in contrast to the officers’ memoirs that proliferated following the war. Another was a claim to represent the general by means of the particular, which Cushman insists is not quite...

...
poetry of the Vietnam War. Her study covers a broad range of work by Ameri-
can and Vietnamese poets—both civilians and combat soldiers, supporters
and protesters. In both books, poetry is a means of complicating and challeng...

... for the denial of free-
dom under ‘‘racial capitalism’s mercantilist conjuncture how are readers, or
for that matter, those who are ‘‘subjectiﬁed to get beyond the insight that
race and labor impinge upon racial capitalism (84)?
The soldier-citizen is, for Samet, no less dense a nut. She cracks...